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What Could Anthony Richardson Look Like in Week 1? | Jaguars Reporters · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a new season of the Jaguars Reporters Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: JP Shadwick, Kai Stevens, John Oser. Glad you're with us.
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  Speaker 1: The Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts coming up this Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indy. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to. The football season is finally here.
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  Speaker 1: The team was back on the field Monday, players day
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  Speaker 1: off Tuesday, and Johnny, it's finally real football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's always weird week one because there, on
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  Speaker 2: the one hand, there's all this incredible excitement as there
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  Speaker 2: should be for the NFL season to kick off. At
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  Speaker 2: the same time, you've covered the team and you've talked
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  Speaker 2: about it so much that there's this feeling of they're ready.
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  Speaker 2: Now what else is there to say about it? If
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  Speaker 2: you follow I think all you guys go through the
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  Speaker 2: same thing.
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  Speaker 1: So they might be in the barn a little bit
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  Speaker 1: in that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So there's gonna be the topics, you know, offense, really
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  Speaker 2: good defense, can rush the pass or weird Week one.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go over the same stuff, but it's really just
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  Speaker 2: to hold your breath feeling until one o two on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's that excitement in the way that
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  Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, let's go, so then we can talk
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  Speaker 4: about how it actually comes out.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So, like we've been pontificating and predicting and what we
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  Speaker 4: think we will see, but until they actually play football,
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  Speaker 4: as we know, every year you predict teams are gonna
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  Speaker 4: be good or bad, and then season starts, it's a
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  Speaker 4: whole different situation. So we're definitely at that point where
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  Speaker 4: you're like, okay, now let's just go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a ton of questions JP, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: for you, you have to read them every day every day. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: can you well, this is this Jaguars team the best
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  Speaker 2: offense in franchise history? Does it compare to those could
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  Speaker 2: teams you covered? Is this the best team in franchise history?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: But they got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they have to play the game on paper.
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  Speaker 2: And if they're as good as we think they are,
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  Speaker 2: then they have a chance to do that. But until
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  Speaker 2: they do it, you can't put them up with fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and two in ninety nine or you know, the great offenses.
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  Speaker 2: That's the storyline, that's what we're all waiting to see.
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  Speaker 1: And the defense has to be a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: as well. If that combination happens, though, then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you're winning a lot of games.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what makes it fun is is it's not
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  Speaker 2: scripted television.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This was compelling. That's why everybody, millions of people around
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  Speaker 1: the world watch Guy because of that.
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  Speaker 4: We love the drama, that's for sure, there's no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: So we heard from Christian Kirk and Foyer A Luiken
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  Speaker 1: yesterday on Monday, getting ready for week one and getting
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  Speaker 1: some of their thoughts about the week ahead, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the same idea. Right there's I think I
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  Speaker 1: asked Foyer, you know everybody's back, play caller is back.
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  Speaker 1: How are you guys better? And the continuity is a
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  Speaker 1: real thing. On this defense, they feel like at least
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  Speaker 1: bringing everybody back gives everybody an opportunity to make things
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  Speaker 1: slow down. They're not worried about the guy next to
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  Speaker 1: them anymore. They know exactly where things are going to be,
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  Speaker 1: and on the defensive side, that could be huge for
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  Speaker 1: this group.
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  Speaker 4: I think both of them touched on what they would
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  Speaker 4: kind of describe as comfortability, and I think there's something
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  Speaker 4: to that. You want to have things set in a
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  Speaker 4: way where everybody understands what's expected of them. Everybody understands
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing. And I know it's only the second
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  Speaker 4: year under Doug Peterson, but you really do feel like
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  Speaker 4: it's already kind of set. The way they're gonna do
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  Speaker 4: things is already aware. You're not like a freshman or
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  Speaker 4: a rookie coming in. You're like, what's going on, big eyes,
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand. Everybody seems to understand what is expected
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  Speaker 4: of them, what they need to do to get on
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  Speaker 4: the field, and what the team needs out of them
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  Speaker 4: if they're gonna be successful.
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  Speaker 2: You hate to say things like this because storylines never
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  Speaker 2: play out as you really think they do in this league.
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  Speaker 3: But there will never.
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  Speaker 2: If you think that the Trevor Lawrence Doug Peterson combination
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  Speaker 2: and Trent Balke and that will be an era that
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  Speaker 2: started in twenty twenty two, there will never be a
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  Speaker 2: season during.
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  Speaker 3: That era where there are fewer.
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  Speaker 2: Unknowns on paper going into a season as there are
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  Speaker 2: around this team, meaning except for Juwan Taylor and Cam Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: But Camp's will be back. So but except for Jawan
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  Speaker 2: Taylor and I guess Marvin Jones. Yeah, they lost nothing
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  Speaker 2: arden Key on defense but not a starter. So three
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  Speaker 2: losses and everybody nash teeth about arden Key and I
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  Speaker 2: loved arden but you know, you lost four sacks and
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  Speaker 2: you lost the right tackle. But you have clear replacements
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  Speaker 2: for those starting when they start redoing the cap, there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be hey, who's taking this skill position?
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  Speaker 3: Spot?
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  Speaker 2: What's here? So it's all there. Plus you added Ridley,
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  Speaker 2: Bigsby and Breton Strange to this. It's the old Athlons.
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  Speaker 2: When you read it, Alabama returns nine starters off the
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  Speaker 2: seg well, there's never gonna be a year where that
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  Speaker 2: looks better for this team. And I think it's why
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  Speaker 2: Christian Kirk and when Christian was talking and on Monday
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  Speaker 2: about the comfortability, which I'm not sure is a word.
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  Speaker 4: But I know what I liked it, so I'm going
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  Speaker 4: he used it.
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  Speaker 2: I almost asked when somebody else asked a question, what
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  Speaker 2: they're feeling That confidence, that ready to go, that assuredness
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  Speaker 2: was impossible to have last year. You only have this
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  Speaker 2: feeling once as a team with everybody coming back and
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  Speaker 2: with experience in this I kept using at the preseason
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  Speaker 2: week three, this is the time that they feel like
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  Speaker 2: all they want to do is get out there week
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  Speaker 2: one and flex, which I you know, I'm all about flexing.
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  Speaker 1: Jason, because yes, we see that all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Have no doubt he's flexing at the desk right now constantly.
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  Speaker 3: It's a constant flex for me.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it on, Please, keep it on. Putting ahead. We're
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  Speaker 1: back in a moment, and we'll get into the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: Colts and the mobility of quarterback Anthony Richardson. That's next.
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars reporters. Welcome back to Jaguars reporters, J P. Shadwick,
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  Speaker 1: Kai Stevens and John the Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts
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  Speaker 4: Start hyting now.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, hydrate early and often, and we'll see at the
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  Speaker 1: the playoff rematch from a year ago in the Divisional round.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the Colts and the Jaguars split the
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  Speaker 1: season series last year.
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  Speaker 2: Last five years, that's true. Yes, yeah, they've both held
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  Speaker 2: serve at home for the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, Well, it's time to break it because if this
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  Speaker 1: Jags team is going to manage this division and handle it,
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  Speaker 1: they've got to go win a game like this against
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  Speaker 1: a roster that again, on paper, we're looking at paper
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  Speaker 1: in front of us. It's what it is. You haven't
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  Speaker 1: played the game yet. On paper, this Jaguars team is
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  Speaker 1: stronger in this Colts team in terms of depth start,
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  Speaker 1: frontline starters, skill position players, and all the rest. The
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  Speaker 1: big question though, is what the heck are the Colts
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  Speaker 1: gonna look like on offense? Anthony Richardson is there now
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  Speaker 1: rookie quarterback? The running backs not available? The offensive line
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  Speaker 1: didn't play that great overall last year in Indianapolis. Who
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  Speaker 1: are these receivers in the grand scheme? New offensive play
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  Speaker 1: called new head coach. I mean, there's all these questions
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  Speaker 1: in Indy. You don't know. Week one is just the
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  Speaker 1: great question mark around the league.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes to me, it feels like a game where and
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  Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if it doesn't play out this way.
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  Speaker 3: But I've I've been surprised before. I think the.
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  Speaker 2: Jags score early, have a lead, and then the Colts
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  Speaker 2: keep being there even though you think the jag Wars
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  Speaker 2: are out playing them, and we've all sort of seen
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  Speaker 2: those games, because I think they're gonna get pressure and
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  Speaker 2: then there's gonna be a play in the second quarter
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  Speaker 2: where they get pressure and all of a sudden, Richardson
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  Speaker 2: is standing the ends after a forty five yard run,
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  Speaker 2: where you say, but Jaguars did everything right there, didn't
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  Speaker 2: play that poorly, but this kid made a play and
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  Speaker 2: they'll probably do one with his arm because you're game
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  Speaker 2: planning so difficult. So I think it'll be close in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter with the Jaguars having a lead, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they'll make a play to seal it. But
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  Speaker 2: my expectation is it'll be one of those games. And
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  Speaker 2: I think I told this to Kay earlier in the
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  Speaker 2: week where I'll be getting emails about people angry that
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  Speaker 2: they didn't look better in the win, because that's usually
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  Speaker 2: what week one is.
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  Speaker 4: A win's a win, though, right, So that's the answer
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  Speaker 4: to that potential email you might get. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: always interesting when you play a rookie quarterback, of course,
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  Speaker 4: especially someone like Anthony Richardson who doesn't have a ton
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  Speaker 4: of game film in college. Even so what you can
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  Speaker 4: expect you don't know. And it's his first game, so
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  Speaker 4: there's a matter of will he be nervous Wally, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what are we going to see out of him in
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  Speaker 4: terms of what he can do in his first NFL game,
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  Speaker 4: because it's not even like, oh, he's a rookie and
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  Speaker 4: he's been playing for couple of games now, so there's
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  Speaker 4: that aspect to me. I hope that the defense can
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  Speaker 4: at least do a little bit. I mean, we've been
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  Speaker 4: talking about pass rush for like three months now, but
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  Speaker 4: if you can't get something going against this offensive line
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  Speaker 4: and a rookie quarterback, then we're going to have a
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  Speaker 4: lot more emails and a lot more questions about it.
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  Speaker 4: So that'll be a lot. I know he's very elusive,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm sure we will see some crazy plays out
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  Speaker 4: of him on Sunday, but hopefully it's just that, and
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  Speaker 4: it's in an effort where the score doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 4: as much because the Jaguars are able to get their
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  Speaker 4: offense rolling early on in the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different kind of rush though, right and we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this with mobile quarterbacks before. You're not flying
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  Speaker 1: up the field from the edges, because that opens up
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  Speaker 1: a little space where he can kind of score it
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  Speaker 1: out there. So you've got to maintain your lanes discipline
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  Speaker 1: on the rush and kind of keep him contained and
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  Speaker 1: get that push from the middle all at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: That's what would make him nervous. So all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden there are things flashing in front of his face
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  Speaker 1: and it's going fast, and he throws one or two
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  Speaker 1: up to you on the back end, then you can
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  Speaker 1: start feasting on him. You want him to throw it
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  Speaker 1: down the field more than you want him running free,
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  Speaker 1: and you know zone defense on the back end, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be able to look at him a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot more than you would be playing a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of man in theory. That's what we talked
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  Speaker 1: about on Monday night.
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  Speaker 3: At least.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I would think the reason I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll keep it tight, I would think they would protect
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  Speaker 2: him throughout a lot of the game because he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: seen very much NFL stuff in terms of it covers
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  Speaker 2: ups on the back end, in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff you start seeing when you game plan.
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  Speaker 2: He's never been game planned before in the NFL during preseason,
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  Speaker 2: so I would think the Colts to keep it very
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  Speaker 2: simple for him. And the reason I think the Jags
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  Speaker 2: will pull away late is they probably won't be forced,
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  Speaker 2: meaning the Colts to make him do things he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to do or isn't used to doing, until late,
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  Speaker 2: which is when he'll probably make the mistakes where Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: now I've got to throw twenty yards downfield into covers
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  Speaker 2: where I haven't had to do that before. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's where the Jaguars get to pick late and and
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  Speaker 2: I break it open. Because they're smart, they won't put
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  Speaker 2: him in situations to fail, and I would think they'll
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  Speaker 2: put him a last situations to run, which will play
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  Speaker 2: into his strength enough to keep it close for a while.
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  Speaker 3: The only X.
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  Speaker 2: Factor is if the Jaguars could get a big rush early,
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  Speaker 2: somehow confuse him early and get an early turnover, then
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  Speaker 2: it does feel like it's it's a game. Obviously, with
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  Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback sometimes there are wheels off games.
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  Speaker 3: You'd like to be able to force that early if.
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  Speaker 2: You can, But I mean it's in any game, but
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  Speaker 2: it's more likely to happen to week one guy.
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  Speaker 4: I think also when we talk about Anthony Richardson in
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  Speaker 4: terms of just what he's going to be able to
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  Speaker 4: do out there, is it something where you're just trying
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  Speaker 4: to be a game manager? Do you feel like with
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  Speaker 4: him or do you kind of they try They're choosing
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  Speaker 4: to start him in week one. I guess I find
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  Speaker 4: that interesting too, when you saw Trevor in week one, like,
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  Speaker 4: do you remember what that looked like? I wasn't here,
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  Speaker 4: so this way, asking.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't bad?
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  Speaker 4: How bad was it?
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  Speaker 3: Trevor didn't look that bad, but the rest of it.
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  Speaker 4: But this is what Richardson's good. There's nothing good around
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  Speaker 4: him either. So I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 3: Well, even if they do okay, well.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this first game out he was twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight to fifty one, three thirty two, three touchdowns, three picks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Stichen's coach in the NFL before, So I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it'll look as bad as but.
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  Speaker 1: Just operationally on and off the field, guys got out
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  Speaker 1: of the huddle, it was substitutions was it was.
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  Speaker 2: Just messy as anything I've ever seen in the NFL. Frankly,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think it'll look like that with Indy
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  Speaker 2: because Shane's been around, so yeah, I don't think it'll
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  Speaker 2: looked like that. I don't know that they'll game manage
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  Speaker 2: him in the true sense of when I think a
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  Speaker 2: game managing, I think of eighteen passes in a game
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  Speaker 2: where they just I don't know that without Taylor to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do that. But I think they'll manage.
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  Speaker 2: I would guess you'll see a lot of short passes early,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of design runs so that he's still feeling
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  Speaker 2: good about him himself with seven minutes to go in
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  Speaker 2: the second quarter, you know, and so that.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't put him in a lot of high risk.
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  Speaker 2: They'll probably be game managing without it looking like that,
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  Speaker 2: if that makes any sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeahay, I would imagine much of that is mental, especially
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  Speaker 4: when it's his first NFL game, just keeping him in
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  Speaker 4: the like you're doing fine, like like we were right
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  Speaker 4: where you want you to be, and not letting that
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  Speaker 4: become an issue because if you get in his head
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  Speaker 4: in the first quarter, then it's pretty much done.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: He's talked so much Steichen has about I love this
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  Speaker 2: kid's big playability.
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  Speaker 3: It's what I'm excited about so.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be I think they'll put him in situations to make,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully make big plays. It'll be interesting to see how
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  Speaker 2: they keep him out of what they consider risky situations
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  Speaker 2: to not throw turnovers, because that's really where his problems
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  Speaker 2: with Florida were. Once a half, it seemed he would
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  Speaker 2: make a throw where he went ooh, well, hopefully that'll
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  Speaker 2: happen on Sunday because that's what we.
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  Speaker 1: Want early and then hit him a few times and
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  Speaker 1: stay in his head all day long. That would be
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  Speaker 1: the ideal situation. The most points the Jaguars have ever
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  Speaker 1: scored in a game in Indianapolis twenty seven three times.
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  Speaker 4: They last time.
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  Speaker 3: I bet they won all three of those.
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  Speaker 1: Right, they were two and one. They lost last year
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  Speaker 1: up dude, thirty four to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Because they scored twenty seven once when Scobe hit a
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  Speaker 2: fifty ish, and that's true with the other two.
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  Speaker 1: It was twenty four, twenty seven to twenty four. They
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  Speaker 1: won that game, and then twenty seven nothing in seventeen
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, and then last year the lost thirty four
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  Speaker 1: to twenty seven on a Matt Ryan touchdown passed for
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  Speaker 1: fourteen seconds to play over Shack Griffin now with the
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  Speaker 1: Texans who changed the number zero the other day.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I like our zero better.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think so too. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 3: be nice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find that out in a few weeks. I suppose,
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  Speaker 1: all right, episode one of the books. We'll do it
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  Speaker 1: again next week. We're looking forward to Jaguars Am this
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  Speaker 1: week in the new studio, right.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, studio. We're still getting everything going, but we're
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  Speaker 4: very excited to be in our new venue.
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  Speaker 3: Sure it's nice.
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  Speaker 4: John doesn't like that he has to wear pants and
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  Speaker 4: not shorts anymore. He likes the podcast or whatever to cour.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we like anything. Any of the above is fine.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take it what we can get. As John Ozer
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  Speaker 1: Kai Stevens, I'm JP Shadwick. Thank you for listening to
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